The Strange Years of My Life NPR's Book Concierge

NPR's Book Concierge

Building Greatness and Great Times

telling ourselves to be grateful

Carefully selected from among Ms Andria Flax's very diverse collection of poems written over a span of nearly ten years

through Devon and Cornwall

The Strange Years of My Life NPR's Book ConciergeAuthor: Laughlin, Nicholas "I never thought I would come all this wayto come all this way."The troupe of "friends" and "strangers" whom the reader meets in these poems are sometimes alter egos, sometimes aliases, sometimes adversaries. Located in worlds such as those of French film noir, spy movies, and travellers' tales, they inhabit a milieu of mistaken identity, deliberate disguise and random encounters in hotels. For the voyager, "there are too